All Films

The Diamon'd

1981 • 1 min • France

Terre d'ombre

1981 • 14 min • France

Mémoires Filmiques

1981 • 10 min • France

A homage to the 80s experimental cinema. A poetic play manifesto about this form of expression that at the moment had a huge development.

Mobiles

1981 • 15 min • France

Mobiles works with regulated frame movements becoming increasingly more unpredictable : a controllable, closed space, in which more random and unrestrained movement are distributed. This device allows forms to be deployed by the movement, but is still untapped by narrative film: contracting and leaking spaces, crushed signs, decomposition of movements by other movements, dripping and corpuscular choreography. Mobiles is the result of a continuous tension between abstraction and reality. The same goes for the relationship between sound and image, which echo one another.

On Your Own

1981 • 2 min

Into my hands fell a 20-minute exhortation to find the right job after high school. Struck by its fierce redundancy, I undertook a distillation, editing the optical track, aiming for conversational cadence, choosing image only when silent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Memories of Spring in Liao Ning

1981 • 40 min • France

Experimental diary shot in 1978-1979 when Alain Mazars was a volunteer teacher in China, 2 years after Mao's death. We see a few pictures, by candlelight, and they flash before our eyes quicker and quicker, before becoming mental images, an entanglement of memories coming from a mind that was asleep until then.

What Mary Jo Shared

1981 • 13 min • United States of America

A short film for school kids about the importance of sharing.

Racing

1981 • 2 min • United States of America

Conversations with Willard Van Dyke

1981 • 60 min

In 1935 photographer Willard Van Dyke moved to New York with the belief that films "could change the world" and began a new career as a filmmaker. His name soon became synonymous with social documentary in the U.S. His images of cottonfields, steelmills and industrial towns, and his portraits of unemployed factory workers and their families, provide an invaluable chronicle of those years and have become timeless examples of cinematic art. A candid portrait of a distinguished and outspoken man, this film includes conversations with colleagues Ralph Steiner, Joris Ivens and Donald Richie; footage of Edward Weston, his close friend and mentor; and many excerpts. It explores the dilemma of anyone with a social conscience who must face the harsh realities of earning a living while retaining their integrity. And it reveals a man in his seventies still determined to do good creative work.

Chutes de Gong

1981 • 7 min • France

The Madonna of Vilnius

1981 • 9 min

A story about a version that Madonna of the Gate of Dawn is an artistic expression of the drama that Barbora Radvilaitė experienced.

Chutes de Foire du Trône

1981 • 20 min • France

Outtakes from the movie Foire du Trône.

Musikalische Arabesken: Dixie-Linien

1981 • 4 min • East Germany, Germany

Second of four "musical arabesks".

Symptomatic Syntax

1981 • 28 min

Symptomatic Syntax is a recreation of an ecological environment in which natural forms — leaves, flower petals, butterfly wings — form an ever-changing, visually compelling series of compositions. Juxtaposed with these organic forms is a series of texts that examine time, logic, and the dichotomy between the mental and the physical. This complex fusion of the sensual and the cerebral questions the understanding of time and natural progression.

Dinosaurs: Puzzles from the Past

1981 • 21 min • Canada, United States of America

Join two youngsters and their teacher as they discover clues to Dinosaurs: Puzzles from the Past. Putting dinosaurs in perspective is their first task. They follow a time line back from the Age of Man to the era of dinosaurs. Animation introduces a variety of dinosaurs and their environment. Students see fossilized dinosaur bones uncovered by excavators at Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. They also visit a paleontologist in his lab and see a comparison of bones from two different dinosaurs. At a museum in Ottawa the two youngsters see a full-scale reconstructed tyrannosaur skeleton and identify it as a meat-eater by its feet and teeth.

Lighting

1981 • 6 min • Romania

Experimental film on 16mm by Ioan Pleș as part of Kinema Ikon.

Pony

1981 • 24 min • United States of America

Crimen a fondo

1981 • 53 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Burbujas; Rockola

1981 • 46 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Cómo quieres que sea

1981 • 60 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Aporia Series: Aporia I

1981 • 10 min

"It hurt my eyes, there was too much TV in it." - Stan Brakhage

Unwelcome Affection

1981 • 14 min

This Army training video was created in the 1980s by Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC to increase awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace. The video showed five dramatized examples of inappropriate workplace behavior, followed by suggested questions after each segment to generate group discussion.

Hanafuda / Jasper Johns

1981 • 35 min

"HANAFUDA observes the artist, Jasper Johns, and the master Japanese silkscreen printers at Simca Print Artists, as they created three different images from Johns USUYUKI and CICADA series. For me, the camera was a pretext for an in-depth apprenticeship. The finished film recapitulates my process of learning, gleaned over time, as I observed Johns and the printers at work. What I wanted to know was how one generates a work of art and, for that matter, what is art, what work is involved, and how do ideas as opposed to physical labor drive the decision making process. The films became a meditation on art and craft, as well as on the dialectic of mind and body, concept and actual work." -Katy Martin.

Essay

1981 • 6 min • Soviet Union

A couple of America-worshipping cool cats cruise the streets with their pram full of forbidden fruit.